Homestead “Epitaph”Silver Saddle “Horn”

Silver Spruce “Compass”Outpost “Express”

Pathfinding “Prints”

OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF COLVIG SILVER CAMPS FALL 2011Reporting from the beautiful Red Creek Valley...and beyond!

From the Director’s Chair...Resiliency

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First term: June 11 - June 24Second term: June 26 - July 9Third term: July 13 - July 26

Fourth term: July 28 - August 10

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Second term: July 13 - August 10

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That word again – the theme of my past week. It popped up three different times in completely different contexts in the last seven days and has me thinking. I feel compelled to share because it is such an important life skill. But what is it exactly? Check any old diction-ary and you will find something like this:

Resiliency: the ability to quickly recover from or adjust to illness, change, or misfortune.

Wow! Sounds like a useful trait. Something that might come in handy if you crash your bike. Or have a divorce in the family. Or try to deal with an economic downturn. Or recover from a natural disaster. It might help in the following situation too. At a recent camp confer-ence we heard mountaineer Jim Davidson speak about a life-threatening fall he once took. If you’ve ever watched the Animal Planet show “I Shouldn’t Be Alive” you might recognize his story. He was descending Cho-Oyu in the Himalayas with a partner after a successful climb when he fell through the top layer of a glacier and into a crevasse more than 100 feet deep. Somehow he survived the fall with minor injuries and landed on a large block of ice wedged 60 feet down into the crevasse. At this point it was dark, the crevasse where he had stopped was 3 feet wide, he was buried over his head in the snow from his fall, and there was no im-mediate sign of his partner who he knew had also fallen into the crevasse. Well, we knew he had made it because he was standing in front of us so he proceeded to describe the incredible sequence of events and thought processes he went through to climb out of that hole alive. It was a story of courage, persistence, action, commitment, discomfort, and challenged per-sonal boundaries – in short, resilience. He exhibited what Laurence Gonzalez, author of “Deep Survival: Who Lives and Dies and Why” indicates is of primary importance in extreme survival situations – integrity. My second run in with resiliency was in the following Sunday paper in a story by AP writer Martha Irvine. She wrote about a retreat center designed by Joseph DeNucci to address what they call “failure to launch” in young men of all economic backgrounds. At the center the goals are simple, “Get up. Clean your room. Hold meaningful conversations. Resolve your differences.” They move on to setting goals, getting a job, staying in school, and moving out of their parent’s house. These are the simple rites of passage for any young adult but experts say that an increasing number of young adults, “lack the will or perhaps even the know how to achieve them”. The adult world is a more challenging place than it was even 5 years ago and it is common for this generation of parents, though well meaning, to try to put a helmet, metaphorical or otherwise, on their children at every turn. This can leave them in a position where “they don’t know how to fail or to bounce back from failure.” As one participant put it, “If I don’t try, I can’t fail.” They lack the skill of resilience.

It’s Tebow Time!

First Term campers practice their ninja skills as they get ready to take on the Shredder during the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Special Day!

The Magic of CSC... For 42 years, CSC has been committed to provid-ing the best summer camp experience possible for our campers. The magic of CSC lies in our limited program size, our incredible staff, and our dedication to the CSC ideals and goals that have put such large smiles on so many faces...

o providing a personal approach to camping with a focus on indivdual growth...

o offering a non-competitive educational experience that consistently combines re-sponsibility, fun, learning, and adventure...

o developing positive relationships with oth-ers, within ourselves, and with our envi-ronment...

o offering expeditions that require a coop-erative yet individual effort, fostering both self-reliance and group awareness...

o and providing inspired and dedicated lead-ership that encourages positive life skills.

We always enjoy hearing from our friends and families across the country. Please feel free to give us a call or drop us an email with any ques-tions, comments, or concerns you may have. Working together is the best way to make the CSC experience as unforgettable as it is valuable.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk cu-

riosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any

experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. E. Cummings

Chatting With The Office Crew...

Lucky Number EvanHello All! I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful transition into the winter months as much as I am. I have been keeping busy with work and play but have made time to enjoy the RCV fall colors as well. After camp was wrapped up I took a trip out to Music City, USA (Nashville, TN) to help out again as volunteer staff for Victor Wooten’s Bass/Nature Camps. It is quite a bit different from the CSC camp experience but it especially inter-ests me as a both a bass player and nature enthusiast. Since returning I have been working on my latest project of transitioning careers, which brings me to the point of this article. After five wonderful years at CSC, I have decided to pursue my passion for my musical career on a full time level. I am currently gathering a studio of private students, playing in various different musical groups around the area, and spending much more time in the recording studio both as a player and a producer. I am very excited to be dedicating most of my time to this endeavor and am discovering how many of the skills acquired at CSC help to realize one’s goals, no matter the field or industry. I will never forget the many experiences I have had or the amazing people I have met during my time in the RCV. Thank you to everyone and I wish you all the best!

Goodbye for now, ~Evan~

Two Terrific Years: Jonathan Backus, Logan Barkley, Sam Bovard, Aleya Burg, Lucy Campbell, Alessandra Cooper, Roland Danemann, Ian De Faria, Sydney Delac-ey, Ava Dunn, Aiden Egan, Cate Hurley, Phoebe Hurwitz, Jack Huston, Sam Huston, Carson In-troligator, Logan Kershaw, Andree Langevin, Benton Lehman, Oliver Lehman, Elizabeth Loschert, Coby Lowenstein, Carter McLoughlin, Maggie Padon, Jade Robbins, Ben Robinson, Kobe Robinson, Serena Savage, Max Sinberg, Cloud Spitzfaden, and Spencer Stein

Three Thrilling Years: Kevin Allen, Emily Bruell, Charlie Coy, Cameron DeLacey, India Fernandez, Carson Hilliker, Ka-leb Houx, Freddi Linda, Maddie Mangnall, Andy Mangnall, Livy Mangnall, Max McCumber, Seth

Molina, Joseph Murray, Bella Patterson, Chris Savage, Hayley Suiter, and Griffin Williams

Four Fabulous Years: David Ater, Reid Belanger, Dylan Blair, Natalie Cohn, Caden Colvig, Bettie Coy, Logan Crabb, McKenna Crabb, Sam Dippold, Isaac Goldstein, Warren Hartman, Ashley Hening, Evan Hening, Teo Iliohan, Lauren Indovino, Peter Indovino, Bram Lowenstein, Sydney McCutchen, Melis-sa Miller, Rachel Miller, Kate O’Riley, Rowan O’Riley, Chris Padgett, Ian Padgett, and Trey Thomas

Five Fantastic Years: Jonah Asvestas, Rachel Bennetts, Amy Campbell, Sean Curtis, Thomas Curtis, Logan Fogle, Quinn Fogle, Alec Fontana, Robbie Gardner, Zoe Kuhn, Sydney McKinney, Catherine Padon, Orion Rain-

er, Francesca Sabel, and Sebastian Ward

Six Significant Years: Matthew Ater, Charlie Bovard, Bucky Engel, Nat-alie Engel, Jake Iliohan, Nicole Indovino, Noah Miller, Jonah Morrison, and Ben Young

Seven Special Years: Eli Beck, Spencer Beck, Devon Bone, Cooper Colvig, Katie Cooper, Dana Hutchins, Sam Linda, Betsy Ward, and Hank White

Eight Exciting Years: Conor Curtis, Jack Martens, Sam Martens, Ra-chel Miller, and Naomi Winard

Nine Notable Years: Jacob Cooper, Alex Cooper, and Sara Witz

Congratulations to all of our Return Campers in 2011!

6T MinutesGreetings Folks! A couple of months have passed since we said goodbye to you all as camp ended in August. We were so ex-cited to hear great things about this past summer, and we already have plans in the works to make next summer equally great or even better! One way we are working towards this goal, is by installing a new water system, and it is going very well. On one particular day, I spent many hours in the trenches as Cassidy and I dug the new water lines, and buried them deep beneath the earth to protect them from the harsh winters. It was a very productive day, and let me tell you, they don’t call them the Rocky Mountains for nothing, as we pulled large boulder after even larger boulder from the earth. The off-season has been going swimmingly. Fall came very quickly. The aspens had already begun changing colors by mid-September and we have already had a few snow storms come through southwest Colorado. Wolf-Creek Ski Area was the first to open in Colorado, the first week of October, and just this past weekend I went there to begin getting my ski legs under me and hit some fresh early season powder! At the end of October I headed out to Utah. I went there to meet with a few of our National Forest and BLM rangers, and also to check out some of the amazing trips we have out in the high deserts of canyon country in Southeast Utah. It is gorgeous out there, and CSC truly is blessed to have permits in that arid, beautiful, and ancient landscape! Of the places I visited, I would have to say Fish & Owl Canyons and Dark Canyon are among my favorites, and though I didn’t have time to do the entirety of the CSC trips, the day hikes around the area were spectacular! Recently the administration crew headed to Sanborn Western Camps to visit with friends in the camp busi-ness, and participate in some professional development at the Rocky Mountain Section meeting of the ACA. It is always fun to share ideas across camps, and also have some good ole fashioned fun, which included a little bit of Thunderball! CSC was well represented.

That’s it from my corner of the office. I wish everyone a happy holiday season and a happy new year! Before I part, as always, I would like to leave you with something to ponder…why is it that when you transport some-thing by car, it’s called a ship-ment, but when you transport something by ship, it is called cargo?

Think about it, ~Tyler~

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Jamie’s Journal

The sunshine of summer made for chasing birds, fetch-ing sticks, doggie paddling in the lake and greeting all the campers with a friendly lick and a wag of my tail. But I do have to say I’m glad the snow is here! There is noth-ing I like better than rolling on my belly across the white powder, burying my head in the snow and chasing icicles around the deck. Oh, I probably should introduce myself. Hi! I’m Brandy, Jamie’s 11 month old puppy. I came to camp last spring and I’ll tell ya, being a camp dog is the best thing ever! I think my friend Ranger (he lives with Tyler) would agree. Neither one of us had any idea that, when it comes to puppy life, we’d hit the motherload. After a few months of quiet days at the office chasing Ranger and tak-ing long naps (I was a growing pup and needed my energy), one day my world changed completely. There were people everywhere, and most of them were just my size! So I got busy greeting each one of them. I shared kisses, wagged my tail, and extended my paw to everyone. Needless to say, I made friends easily. The campers were my favor-ite, they all just wanted to pet me…what more could a dog want? My favorite free choice was anything that had to do with being in the water or chasing after balls. I even got to join the Quidditch match. They needed a fast Seeker. I did miss out on the goat herders one Homestead afternoon. I think I would have been a natural. Then one day, just as I was getting the hang of all the rules, everyone was gone! Summer was over, and it was just me and Jamie again. As much as I loved the summer, I’ve sure kept busy this fall exploring, smelling new smells, and spending as much time outside as I can. There were occasional visits from some local school children. They came out to share their lunches with me while they tackled our challenge course. Now, while everyone in the office is busy plan-ning for another great summer, I’ve made it my job to keep watch for all the four legged friends that have made their home in our valley. I keep the deer out of the hay barn and act tougher than I really am to let the coyotes know this is my turf. And of course somebody has to keep an eye on the horses, alpacas, goats and chickens. They get lonely without the campers around, so I make sure to visit. I was left in charge this week while the office staff made their way to the American Camping Association, Rocky Mountain Section Conference in Florissant, Colorado. This was a chance for them to network with other camps, bounce around ideas with people who do what they do, seek expert advice, and to have a little fun. They were pretty excited for a game they call Thunderball??? I know when they get back they will be re-charged and ready to make a great summer even better than the last! I hope they bring me back a nice stick to chew on. Before I get back to my post on the office deck, I want to wish every-one a happy holiday sea-son and if you’re ever in the area I’d love to show you all my favorite mud puddles and snow banks.

Keep in Touch! ~Jamie~

My final brush with the term involved the Tebow bandwagon. As you might expect, I’m a Broncos fan, an affliction that has not been easy since the old quarterback retired. Things weren’t looking much better this year with a 1 and 4 start. But they have gotten much more interesting of late with a defense that keeps them in the game and provides the often realized possibility that this kid with suspect accuracy but a huge heart can pull off a win at the last minute. Case in point, the game last Thursday against a much hyped Jets team. Though they played more than 3 quarters of average football they stayed in the game and Tim Tebow was able to get the win at the end. Afterwards, at the end of a day that I had begun to craft this message, he spoke of a team with resiliency when asked how they were able to win the game. The ability to quickly recover from or adjust to illness, change, or misfortune. What a powerful tool to have in your belt, one that I have consciously tried to develop in myself and that I consider one of the primary skills I hope to develop in my son. Life is going to knock us down. We are going to fall off that horse, maybe even literally. What are we going to do about it? How are we going to build the skills necessary to manage the chal-lenges? Where do we learn this? It should always start at home if possible but it is very hard for parents to let their children fail – to not be their backup, their failsafe, their protector. Possibly at school. But there is so much to cover and so many people involved that teachers are rarely able to structure development of this skill and are often unable to closely supervise the impromptu opportunities that happen outside classroom time. As we have seen, athletic ventures provide ample opportunity to fail and rebound but it seems kids are often at the whim of coaches who don’t understand the value of this and don’t have the time or inclina-tion to teach it to the whole team. And what about those who are not athletically inclined? They can be challenged and improve but our current culture in not very patient in this regard and not many people choose to continue to strive that hard when only small athletic steps can be realistically expected. There are other extracurricular venues and we should applaud those that actively strive to teach these characteristics and encourage everyone to make this a part of their process. But it is often difficult when the focus is on the development of a spe-cific skill set related to the activity. Because you have experienced it I hope know where I’m going with this.

What venue is ideal for developing resilience? CAMP!!!

Irvine’s article goes on to describe a therapeutic residential experience very similar to camp as a means of building resiliency. Jim Davidson’s experience, though quite extreme, reveals the potential of wilderness adventure in taking smaller, more manageable steps to resilience. CSC provides campers opportunities to make decisions, control their time, and deal with success, failure, and the unexpected under the guidance of caring adults in a sup-portive community. Research indicates that having unconditional and consistent support from a family member or close friend is one of the most essential corner stones of building resilience. Counselors and the other campers in our inclusive community fulfill this role very well and it makes a huge difference. Campers learn approaches such as replacing pas-sive “how” or “why” questions with “what” or “when” questions which result in action and energy. Camp provides an environment of optimism, fun, and positive emotion that models the positive management of the stress of adversity. At camp we build integrity, which leads to resiliency. This is CSC and this is an intentional outcome of our program. We want to actively help campers develop resiliency. We want our community to be able to adapt, im-provise, and overcome, whenever they are faced with adversity. Here’s to meeting our challenges,

~Clay

Craig I. Colvig Fund Reaches Full Camper

Endowment Status! We are happy to announce that because of your commitment to CSC in the form of annual donations to the CIC Fund over the last ten years, the John Aus-tin Cheley Foundation that manages that fund decided in September to add enough capital to the CIC Fund to raise the amount to endowment level. That puts the CIC Fund, created in honor of the late founding partner of Colvig Silver Camps, at $100,000 and grow-ing, a level at which the annual interest earned sends a camper to CSC every year in perpetuity. We are so excited to add that to the list of three other similarly endowed camperships that have also been created within the Foundation as memorial entities to send campers to CSC. The Ater Endowment was created by CSC alum, Alan Ater and his family, in honor of his parents Reverdie and Jean Ater. The Perkins Endow-ment was created by the Rob Perkins Fund in honor of alum Rob Perkins. The Sanborn/Miller endowment was created by the Weidmann family to honor the

founding women of Sanborn West-ern Camps and CSC, Laura San-born who recently passed away, and Mary Colvig Miller who is on the CSC board. This endowment alternates campers between the two camps. Enormous thanks to the Foundation trustees, the camp-er recruiters, and all of the donors, for providing these opportunities for our community.

We would also like to extend special thanks to the sixteen camper recipients from 2011 for proving to be such worthy candidates for this effort. If we add the nine internal partial scholarship campers we have quite a positive addition to our summer. With your help, it will only grow from here. The Foundation’s new goal is to send 80 campers a summer to the recipi-ent camps which has necessitated the hiring of their first staff person to manage the logistics. CSC cur-rently has four alumni involved with the Foundation – Sam Frostman, Owen Perkins, Alan Ater, and Chris “Bogie” Bovard – who also deserve thanks for the im-mense amount of time they donate to the process of finding funds and campers and getting them to camp

to change their lives. Would you like to honor your camp experience by helping somehow? Can you imagine the possibili-ties that your donation of time or funding can open up for the youth involved and the world around them? There are three equally important ways that you can help. The Foundation is always looking for quality board members committed to the value of a long term mountain camp experience. Financial as-sistance opportunities range from full endowment as described above to sending $20 to the CIC Fund so an unequipped camper can rent a sleeping bag from the Trading Post. If the funds aren’t there but you have some time...

We need help finding eligible campers!

The Foundation needs “recruiters” which in no way means financial sponsorship. It does mean consider-ing what a summer at Colvig Silver Camps meant to you or your own children and finding just a bit of time

to help identify deserving young people to benefit

from that same experience. Potential campers should be between the ages of 11 and 15 with high moral character and leadership promise whose potential could be more realized with the help of a CSC experi-ence, but who don’t have the means to consider it. It is then just a matter of guiding the family through the

application process, assisting the recipients with camp preparations, and helping the Foundation follow-up after camp. Application processes are complete for this year but openings occasionally happen in the spring and it’s good to get started early for next year. If you have even an inkling of an idea for a deserving camper, please talk to them and then contact CSC or visit www.cheleyfoundation.org in the “Camper” sec-tion to learn more about becoming a recruiter. Help us find more great campers, and you will make the

world a better place – one child at a time.

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CSC Scholarship Fund Donators 2011Last summer we were able to grant partial scholarships to nine families to help make camp dreams a reality.

Thanks to you all for contributing to the CSC scholarship fund by donating your unsued camp strore funds.

Tom & Krista Waddell, Fritz & Alane Woehle, Gabe & Stacey Wright, Betty Lasich & Chris Dippold, Darrin Banks & Allison Wren, James Belanger, David & Dena Linda, David & Kendall McCumber, Bruce Miller, Julie Beekmann & Sam Prugh, Kirsten Lund & Quinn Reilly, David & Marsha Goldstein, Joseph & Kris Tompkins, Stephen Whitmore & Sasha Loffredo, Glen Renner & Dudley Beck, Ronnie Caress, Joshua Jen-kins & Nel Iliohan, Christopher & Melissa Bernier, Jay & Karyn Robinson, Sarah Rousseau, Don & Gayle Spitzfaden, Leslie & Natalie Zigel, Samantha Coleman, Maryann & Gregory Allen, and Craig Townsend.

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Second term Homesteaders showed their resliience after climbing to the top of Centennial Peak at 13, 062ft.

Janie (Gould) Licosat (cmpr 75-78) took a break from Santa Fe to introduce her family, husband Mike and their 3 children Jamie, Mia and Natalie, to the magic of CSC. Maybe we will get to pass on memories like Kangaroo Kourt and campfire skits to this next generation of campers

soon. Janie remembers the day that Craig Colvig let her be the Phantom as so much fun. Did she end up in the lake?

Amanda (Heuer) Trocker (cmpr 76-80, stf 82) has too many memories of camp to pick just one. If asked she’d probably say the mon-key bridge challenges were the best. Since camp she’s been to graduate school for Marketing and now has the best job ever as a mom (but being a camp counselor is a close second).

Tam Keltner (cmpr 76,77,80,81) came up from Phoenix to look through photo albums and

remember her days as a Pathfinder. She will

never forget how the rain, hail and snow they unexpectedly encountered on their trek made

the group stronger, tightened their bonds, and strengthened their trust in each other.

Kathy (Moles) Itzen (stf 75) taught elemen-tary school for twenty years, rides horses, kay-aks, and still loves the outdoors as much as she did in her days as camp wrangler. She brought her Palomino horse with her when she came to be the camp wrangler and loved the horse over-nights.

Troy Palmer (cmpr 73-75, 77) has fond mem-ories of hiking, building rafts at Lemon Lake and telling ghost stories near the fallen crane up the valley.

The EightiesMegan (Bray) Foss (cmpr 83-88, stf 90) has some future CSC campers (2012). She brought her husband and their two kids by for a visit. We spent some time looking through old photos and talking about camp. She remembers the ill-fated horse trip where the horses decided to return to camp on their own, leaving their group of camp-ers to hike back on foot.

Peter Delaware (stf 89) relived some of his camp memories by taking his family camping in the San Juan Mountains. He brought his wife Jennifer and their two children Sam and Han-nah by camp for a visit after their adventures near Ouray and Silverton.

Kevin Goody (stf 88) spent many of his days as the librarian at Thomas Memorial Library for 13 years remembering the comedians of Ana-conda. Those TV show commercials they acted out with the cardboard TV set they made for the cabin provided hours of entertainment. He and his wife were married four years ago and are going strong, living the life in Maine!

Carl Ochnio (cmpr 83-85) stopped by with his friend Jay to take a stroll through camp, which of course brought back all kinds of wonderful CSC memories. He even got to take home some of Nancy’s amazing bread. We remember his long hair and his great beard from camp summers.

Hello CSC Alumni!Here is your opportunity to scout out your old

camp friends and bring back those camp memo-ries from so long ago. Thanks to everyone who

took the time to call, write, email, or visit us and tell us what and whom you recall from your

favorite summers. It is heartwarming to read these messages and see what an impact CSC has made on so many lives. Inevitably, someone’s information will be incorrect or outdated, or maybe we forgot to include you in this issue. But there is a simple solution for that: CALL

US! EMAIL US! STOP BY! WRITE US A LET-TER! VISIT THE ALUMNI SECTION OF OUR

WEBSITE! Believe it or not, we do get a little lonely in the valley during the winter and each

time we hear from our camp friends our days are brightened!

Craig Warwick (cmpr 84-85) loved his days in the great outdoors at CSC including rafting on the Colorado River, climbing 14ers and biking for miles in the Canyonlands.

The NinetiesThea Burgess (stf 98) received her Masters in Reading Education from UNH in 2002. She now lives in Maryland and works with students who have language based learning disabilities as a Reading Specialist at the school. Looking back on camp she remembers how special her friends made her feel when they sang ‘Happy Birthday’ from the very top of a mountain.

Nora Schuchat (cmpr 98-03, stf 07-09) spent time teaching last spring in Madrid. One day in class they were celebrating Carnaval at school and being all dressed up and dancing around with her students made her miss camp so much she just had to write us and check in! She is cur-rently working on her Masters in Spanish.

Peggy Vorwald (cmpr 90-94, stf 03,04,06) got married this Fall! Congrats to her and her new husband Matthew Denholtz. It was a beau-tiful celebration here in Durango, and a few of our CSC friends were there to congratulate the newlyweds. The happy couple is currently living in LA where they are both working on getting their PhDs from UCLA and dreaming of the day they can return to the mountains.

The SeventiesDon Anderson (cmpr 69-72,) came down from Lakewood, CO to share some memories of camp with his fiancé. Since his days of challeng-ing Craig Colvig to monkey bridge fights (and in-evitably losing) he has been a teacher at Johnson and Wales University, a consultant in the area of hospitality services (once at the White House), and also a Chef. We look forward to seeing their children return in his footsteps.

Matthew Crane (cmpr 77-78) has been a pro-fessional firefighter since 1983 and teaches fire

science classes to high school and college stu-dents. He fondly remembers Craig Colvig when he was just being his “fun self.”

Eddie Colacion (stf 76) became a National Park Ranger and a teacher in California since his years as a camp counselor. He has never for-gotten the community of committed individuals he met at camp.

Audrey Cromwell (stf 77) will be celebrating her 92nd birthday this December! We enjoyed

the pictures she sent us and her fond memories of the summer she was our camp cook.

Gary Davidson (cmpr 75,77,79,80) hasn’t been back to camp since the reunion in ’95 but

will never forget his first sight of Emerald Lake.

Seeing the lake from the top of a ridge he could almost count the fish in the crystal clear water.

Ben Finley (cmpr 78-83) still has plaques from his summers as a camper, including the one from his Pathfinding year. He says they serve as a

great reminder of all the wonderful life lessons learned at camp.

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Keeping up on the lives of former

staff and campers of Colvig Silver CampsAlumination

The NaughtsErik Eyerman (stf 06) says his summer as Spruce coordinator was the best job he’s ever had. It helped him realize that after being part of the Chicago sketch and improve scene for awhile he is now ready to get back into working with campers again. He has applied to be a program director at a day camp in Chicago.

Erin Frank (stf 04) made CSC a stop on her road trip from Illinois with a friend. It was great to see her and catch up. She keeps busy by taking care of her students and Biggie, her Bulldog.

Allison (Graves) Seymour (stf 00) can’t say enough about the memories of being a CSC Path-finding coordinator, and who can blame her? It

was “utter awesome-ness.” What made it extra

special was when Gray hiked in many miles to deliver a birthday cake! She now lives in Virgin-ia.

Riley Hoke (stf 10) had a “CSC small world” encounter while applying for a job in Vermont. After a brief conversation with Matt Hughes (cmpr 84-85) they soon discovered their con-nection to camp. We love hearing how CSC folks can pop up unexpectedly.

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Colvig Silver Camps was a cornerstone in my matu-rity and development. The limitless bounds that every-day CSC life presented left an indelible impression that I still carry with me today, some 38 years after I first set foot in Camp. When Craig Colvig hired me as an Assistant Coun-selor for the summer of 1972, sight unseen and with no camping experience to my credit, he told me it was because he wanted a “preppie” on the staff (I had just graduated from a boy’s prep school in Pennsylvania). Well, little did I know how lucky I was to have been selected as the token “preppie” for the summer of ’72!As a Silver Spruce AC that summer, I was assigned to tree house “Green I” with Head Counselor John “Zak” Zakresek and six eight year old boys. On our first two day overnight up the valley, reality quickly sunk in: if I wanted breakfast, then I had to gather the firewood, start the fire, crack the eggs, mix the pancake batter and pour the batter on the black griddle so the pan-cakes did not stick, break up, have a funny shape, or come out black. But here was the real jolt… I wasn’t doing this just for myself, but also for six campers who were counting on me! Wow – now there was an elec-tric shock for a pampered kid fresh out of prep school. And camp hadn’t even been in session for a week! I can hardly imagine the impact camp experiences must have had on the Silver Spruce campers given how inspiring and eye opening they were for me as a young adult. I remember a 13,000 foot overnight climb led by Head Counselors Ray Babes and Big Al. We set up dinner camp at 12,000 feet and were quickly reminded that boiling water at that elevation doesn’t quite cook the macaroni. I’ll never forget looking out over the vast array of the San Juan range from our 13,000 foot perch that night, the unobstructed view of the snow covered peaks illuminated by the full moon and cloudless sky. I had no idea such a world existed. This expedition had been a spiritual awakening and physical challenge for me. What an impression it must have left on the camp-ers!! Closing campfire that summer ended with Paper Plate awards and the Super Vik Skit, where Super Vik saved a damsel in distress from the big bad wolf. The campfire was capped off with the presentation of the First Annual Super Vik Award, which went to, none other than Craig Colvig. I came back to CSC in the summer of 1973 as a Head Counselor. That summer I was assigned to Green II. Eric “Big E” Weidman, a graduate of Duke and Stan-ford Business School, was Program Coordinator for Sil-

ver Spruce. CSC wasn’t a place just for those that could rough and tumble in the wild Rockies. While such was a clear threshold, Camp was also a place for academic superstars! Summer of ’73 brought new adventures and new growth: from driving the “Banana Bus” through-out the four corners on various desert expeditions, to leading the Bluff to Mexican Hat rafting trips (quite a thrill for a city boy who had never rafted). That sum-mer closing campfire again ended with the Super Vik Skit and the presentation of the Second Annual Super Vik Award. The 1973 Award went to Mary Colvig. Several years passed. After graduating from Stanford and the University of California Law School, I had been practicing international tax law for one year. I was on the verge of switching law firms, when Craig Colvig ap-proached me and asked me to take the summer of 1980 off from the practice of law and come back to CSC as Program Coordinator for Silver Spruce. At the time I struggled with the decision, but ultimately made the right choice and went back to Camp. It quite possibly could have been the best summer of my life. The lead-ership challenge and the breadth of responsibility that came with the Program Coordinator role, along with everyday adventures that come with CSC life made that a summer of rewards which could never be measured in monetary terms. The ensueing thirty one years have brought many other rewards. I met and married my lovely wife Penny. We had two beautiful children, Sonya and Neal. And I still practice international tax law. But I have never been able to take another summer off and go back to camp and relive those summers - those summers when dreams came true. Where else could a shy, self doubt-ing high school student begin, and two months later emerge as …Super Vik? Only at Colvig Silver Camps.

The Summers When Dreams Came TrueMemories of Camp: By Vikram “SuperVik” Gosain

A classic photo of SuperVik found amongst the camp archives.

Thanks Alumni for sending 54 campers to CSC this summer! Dorothy (Adams) Basso, cmpr 81, and her hus-band Cory sent their son Hudson to Spruce from San Antonio, TX; Bari (Anhaldt) Erlichson, cmpr 78-83, and husband Andrew sent their daughter Emily to Saddle and their son Matthew to Home-stead from Princeton, NJ; Alan Ater, cmpr 71-80 stf 83, and his wife Jill sent their sons Matthew and David to Homestead and Spruce from Auro-ra, CO; Stephen Barkley, stf 79-82, sent his son Lo-gan to Homestead from Oro Valley, AZ; Cydney (Berry) Padon, cmpr 81-85, and her husband Mat-thew sent their daughter Catherine to Saddle and their daughter Maggie to Homestead from Austin, TX; Chris Bovard, cmpr 74-80, stf 82, and his wife Allison sent their sons Charlie and Sam to Out-post and Homestead from Dallas, TX; Art Clack, stf 70-82 sent his son Logan to Spruce and his son Quinn to Outpost from Mitchell, NE; Andy Coy, cmpr 77, and his wife Lisa (McCreary) Coy, cmpr 80-81, sent their daughter Bettie to Saddle and son Charlie to Homestead from La Jolla, CA; Cam-eron Colvig (birth- present) and his wife Nicole sent their sons Cooper and Caden to Spruce and Homestead from Okinawa, Japan; Cassidy Colvig (birth-present) and his wife Monica sent their son Jonah to Spruce from Durango, CO; Mark Dane-mann, cmpr 75-77, and his wife Joanne sent their sons Roland to Homestead and Jake to Spruce from Taos, NM; Tracy (Epstein) Pesikoff, cmpr 78-83, and her husband Joshua Pesikoff, cmpr77, sent their son Jonah to Homestead from Hous-ton, TX; Katy (Erickson) Rosen, cmpr 79, and her husband Joshua sent their children Matthew and Audrey to Homestead from Sarasota, FL; Sydney Ey, cmpr 76,78, and her husband Kris sent their son Andrew to Outpost from Portland, OR; Sarah (Findaque) Rousseau, cmpr 89, and her husband Matt sent their son Dutch to Spruce from Duran-go, CO; Jennifer Frehling, cmpr 79-82, sent her daughter Sofia to Saddle and daughter Giulia to

Homestead from Miami Beach, FL; Shari Leach, stf 94, 95, 97, and her husband sent their son Rob-bie to Outpost from Boulder, CO; Kathy (MacGil-livray) Hilliker, cmpr 79-82, sent her son Carson to Spruce from Denver, CO; Angie McCormick, cmpr 78-80, sent her daughter Monica to Saddle from Vista, CA; Kyle McCutchen, cmpr 95, sent his daughter Sydney to Homestead from Denver, CO; Adam Miller, cmpr 74-78, sent his son Noah to Spruce and his daughter Rachel to Pathfinding

from Houston, TX; Dena (Miller) Linda, cmpr 77-83, and her husband David sent their son Sam to Spruce and their daughter Freddi to Homestead for two terms from Houston, TX; Barbi (Miller) Witz, cmpr 72-77, stf 80, and her husband Craig sent their daughter Sara to Pathfinding from Bel-laire, TX; James O’Riley, cmpr 74-78, 81, and his wife Tammy sent their children Kate, Rowan and Jocie to Saddle, Spruce and Homestead from Scott-sdale, AZ; Stacy (Powell) Cooper, cmpr 81,83,85-88, and her husband Ken sent their children Katie, Alex, and Jacob to Saddle, Outpost, and Pathfind-ing from Lucas, TX; Shelly (Smith) Hendry, cmpr 84-85, and her husband Brian sent their daugh-ters Mirren and Abby to Homestead from Hous-ton, TX; Debbie (Stone) Bruell, cmpr 82, stf 87, and her husband Marc sent their daughters Emily to Saddle and Renee to Homestead from Carbon-dale, CO; Craig Townsend, cmpr 80-81, sent his daughters Freyja and Nyad to Saddle from Wen-dall, MA; Lee Ward, cmpr 71-73, and his wife Isa sent their son Sebastian to Outpost from Al-buquerque, NM; Susan (Wein) Bernhardt, cmpr 77, and her husband Alex sent their son Jacob to Spruce and daughter Nina to Saddle from Chica-go, IL; Allison Wren, cmpr 82, and her husband sent their son Griffin to Spruce from Berkeley, CA;

Louisa (Wren) Padgett, cmpr 78-80 stf 85-86, sent her sons Chris, Ian, and Michael to Pathfinding,

Spruce and Homestead from Denver, CO.

Volzunzteer Week n. 1. The last week in May during which summer staff come early to open up camp and CSC alumni join them to help prepare for the summer. 2. Fun!; hard work; camaraderie; friends; support; contribution; outside!

Alumni often ask us if there is anything they can do to help the CSC community. The most significant way to help is to be “out there”, caring about CSC and recognizing the significance of the experience enough to encourage others – family, friends, and neighbors – to come play outside with us during the summer and discover how much that fun can benefit them. Of course, we know you are doing that from the consistently high percentage of campers who find out about us from word of mouth. Something else you can do, as you will see in the scholarship article, is to help fund or find a camper who should be at camp but doesn’t have the resources. And then we have volunteer week, where you can return to camp, be a camper, sleep in a cabin, eat favorite camp meals, and live the carefree life organized by Free Choice! We have had alumni choose to organize the costume closet and the trad-ing post. We have had current camp families come to help clear brush. We have had new camp families choose to stain the deck. We have even had students choose to pull damaged irrigation pipe off the hill to fulfill their high school community service requirements. We have a great time that week and we appreciate all your help in preparing CSC for the summer and making it a better place. We would like to extend our deepest thanks to this year’s crew provided by Brigitte Jordan-Mincks (cmpr 79,86, stf 87-89). She and her partner, Gottlieb Jicha, rounded up a car full of help from Phoenix and came up for four days to get things going. There were many fun options but in the end they chose to clean the !@#$* out of the barnyard area...literally. Those chickens, goats, and alpacas make a lot of fertilizer! Sixten Jordan (cmpr 07,08) and Matthew Barratz helped at the coop and attacked the willows at the lake. And Callista Mincks (cmpr 08), Sydney Smith, and Hanna Hart provided excellent childcare for the camp kids, Ottis and Sheldon Deutsch. We invite you to join them in these pictures any time.

Volunteer Week 2011: What’s That You’re Shoveling?

Volunteer week 2012: Saturday, May 25th to

Thursday May 31stWe’d love to see you in the valley again!

Smooth Sailing Silver SaddleEvery summer is a great one in Saddle, with these young ladies partici-pating in crazy fun program-ming, getting in-tune with the

outdoors, and making excellent friends. The sum-mer of 2011 was no different as they turned trash into treasure through various arts and crafts, hula hooped to stardom, and cracked the case of the sto-len heart as deputies of Sherlock Holmes. Thanks to some expert planning, they had two awesome Saddle Days, one the festive Seven Summits Day. There were many great days spent on the trail too, visiting Crater Lake and Twilight peak, exploring Arch Canyon, climbing to Ice Lakes, and enjoying the always epic Highland Mary Lakes with Spruce. This savory summer in Saddle would not have been possible without the amazing efforts of Coordinator Stephanie Carter, Head Counselors Carolyn Hushek,

Carrie Nicholson, Nancy McCabe, Alexandra Camp-

bell, and the always trusty and reliable crew of ACs, Kate Leaf, Sarah Greefkens, and Korey Bednarz.

Thanks again Saddle Staff 2011!

Thank You, 2011 Staff!!

Supercalifragilistic Support StaffA summer would not be possible without the hard work and dedication of the support staff team. They provided support and encourage-ment to campers and staff alike. They took care of things behind the scenes, including, but never limited to, supervising movie nights, picking up that random thing to make a special day come together, or driving 4 hours to Utah to pick up a trip. They make sure the camp experience does not miss a single component. It all started in the lodge, with the meals they provided us day in and day out, we can’t thank them enough, our excellent kitchen staff, Nancy Hushek, Gianna Deutsch, Ayla Staelin-Lefsky, and Garrett Marshall. We then move on to the expedition side of things. They kept our gear healthy and our tummies full on the trail, and found every opportunity to get involved with programming. Thank you so much to the dynamic duo of Jennel Rodie, and Ice Campbell for their work at Expo. We, of course, have to thank our amazing Witch Doctor for always knowing what to do, and taking care of us as if we were her own. So thank you so much Mary Donnelly for being there to keep us healthy and happy. We then move on to the Wranglers, or Wrangli, as we call them. Thank you so much Ali Salazar and Kilee McCaleb for all your work with the CSC horse program. Climbing is always a loved aspect of camp, as campers are encouraged to push past their comfort levels and accomplish great feats. No one inspired them better than our Rock Climbing Coordina-tor Mike Vice. You all saw the amazing photos, that were taken daily to show our proud parents what their children were up to at camp, a job that our photographer, Chris Janjic, made look easy. Thank you for all the photos and always lending a helping hand. There is a place that resembles a barn that rest in the valley, and oddly enough, we call it the Art Barn. Our ABC, Erik Mikelsons, this year did a great job inspiring campers with their artful pursuits. Thank you to our diligent laundry lady, Mary Alinda Abernathy for keeping our clothes clean. Thank you to Korey Bednarz and Tricia Murphy for coming to camp as nannies, and watching two little tikes during the summer. And thank you to Christopher Votruba for all his site help and his wife Lauren Votruba, for her help everywhere.

Thanks again to all 2011 support staff members that helped in creating an unforgettable summer at CSC!

Hurray for HomesteadEveryday the sun hits the little western town of Homestead first, waking up the youngest camp-ers at CSC. They yawn, stretch, and jump out of bed ready to get their day at camp started. If you were a fly on the wall in Homestead this summer

you would have witnessed laughter and excite-ment, as they had color wars, hiked goats through the valley as shepherds, and participated in such Homestead Days as Indiana Jones Day. We can’t forget to mention the epic Homestead trips as well. They hiked to many locations such as Castle Rock, Crater Lake, and Mule Canyon in their comfy new packs! This super summer in Homestead is accred-ited to a creative staff team including Coordina-tor Kurt Lammers, Head Counselors Holli Hipwell,

April Hearne, David Dulberger, Lucas Perlstein, and Stetson Davis, and our hard working ACs, Claire Jones, Grace Leonnig, and Davis Loveless.

Thanks again Homestead Staff 2011!

Positively PathfindingThis year of Pathfind-ing started off with, well, snow, and lots of it. But the first

term Pathfinders were

champs as they made their way over the snow covered Weminuche Wilderness. Though their peaks were limited they had the opportunity to spend a whole day climbing in Cascade Canyon just north of Pur-gatory, which received excellent reviews. Second term was an equally epic story, as all five of the

Pathfinders began near Dolores and ended their

130 mile journey hiking in to camp. They were even able to do some mountaineering. This ter-rific year of Pathfinding was led by a tongue

twister of a team, Taylor and Tyler. The efforts of Taylor Driver and Tyler Florence made this another epic year of Pathfinding!

Thanks again Taylor and Tyler!

Summits of Silver SpruceYou never know what to expect as each year in Spruce brings something different from our di-verse staff team. This year, once again, was one for the record books. If you were hanging with Spruce this summer, you may have seen them learn the ways of the Lumberjack - beards, flan-nel and all, shred the gnar with some freestyle walking, or cut a little rug with Saddle at the dance. Don’t forget the two epic Spruce days, Harry Potter and Respect your Elders Day. Out-of-camp was equally awesome, as they peaked the Twin Sisters, explored Arch Can-yon, and climbed two 14ers on the 5-day with Saddle. 2011, a summer in Spruce not possible without their super staff led by Coordinator Davis Turner, Head Counselors, Sean Spencer,

Scotty Hipwell, Andrew Platt, Robert McCreary,

Mitch Lex, Zach Steen, Nathan Feldman, and the awesome AC’s Alex Trowbridge, Nick DiLeo,

and Nick Lamb. Thanks again Spruce Staff 2011!

CALLING ALL POTENTIAL STAFF!

If you are interested in joining us for a Summer of Significance, please check out our website www.colvigsilvercamps.com

for a list of available positions and application details.

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Out and About OutpostThey come and they go, they go and they come. They spend the majority of their days at camp on the trail living the simple life with their friends. Indeed, Outpost had some great trips this year. The new addition of the Colorado Fourteeners Ini-tiative Adopt-a-peak program gave our Outposters the opportunity to make a difference that will last over 100 years and climb two 14ers that we have not climbed in over a decade, Uncompahgre and Wetterhorn. They also rafted the Gunnison, hiked through Dark Canyon, and visited Chicago Basin. Not all of their fun is spent out of camp. Outpost had some fantastic in-camp program-ming this summer as they learned the ways of the people of the Scottish Highlands, and made pin-hole cameras in the Art Barn. This is all thanks to an outstanding group of Outpost staff, including Coordinator’s Wyatt Hosmer and Matthew ‘Mani-

mal’ Reitemeier, and Head Counselors Roz Vara,

Carrie Nicholson, Tessa Gesek, Brett Wagner, Ben

Ziemann, and Michael Stangl. Thanks again Outpost Staff 2011!

Wedding Bells!!!In the summer of 2010 on a sunny afternoon, June 9th, Scott “Grizzly” Kelley (stf 91-99) married Kelly McDonald Fleming outside of Durango at the Blue Lake Ranch. There were a few CSC alumni in attendance – Dee Dee Johnson (stf 90-93), Tim Papi (stf 92-93) and Lois Bartig-Small (stf 70s). The couple lives in Durango where Kelly works as an occupational therapist and Grizzly operates his own tile company. Congratulations to you both!

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Hello to the Old, Goodbye to the New Friends and neighbors, this past fall it was with great admiration and gratitude that we said goodbye to our good friends and all around extraordinary guys, Program Director Evan Suiter and Site Manager Aaron “Eagle 1” Deutsch. As many of you know, Evan is a very accomplished musician and he explains in his article his desire to give his musical career his full attention. We were lucky to have had his leadership and logistical skills at CSC these past 3 years and even luckier that he has been able to provide part-time help this fall. It’s just too hard to let go of people who are so good for us! We thank Evan from the bottom of our valley and wish him a long and jumpin’ career. We would say rockin’ but he’s a jazz musician. We will introduce you to his replacement in the spring issue of the CSC Dispatch. After 6 excellent summers at CSC as an Assistant Counselor, Head Counselor, Program Coordinator, Challenge Course Designer and Builder, Expedition Coordinator, and Kitchen Intern, and 5 more amaz-ing years as our Site Manager, Eagle felt the call of home – the wide open spaces of Oklahoma. So he, his wife, Gianna, who has cooked for us the past two years, and their two boys Ottis and Sheldon, packed up the truck and moved on down the road with the best wishes and deepest thanks expressed from our whole community. Eagle’s finger and footprints were on every inch of our valley and our program. What were we going to do? How were we going to replace some-one so good he earned the nickname Eagle 1 in his first year as an AC? Who was going to build the next stage of the deck? Who was going to refill Outpost Lake!? Who was going to drive the bulldozer!?! Well, after a long search (24 hours and a whole mile) we found someone who has left a few finger and footprints of his own around camp; someone with 9 years of camper experience and 5 years of staff experience as an Assistant

Counselor, Head Counselor, and Site As-sistant; someone with 10 years of construc-tion experience; someone with a unique commitment to the CSC experience. We would hereby like to introduce our new Site Manager, Cassidy Colvig, the youngest of the Colvig brothers and the only one who really knows how to drive the bulldozer. Cassidy had moved back to Durango from Portland a few years ago and was living in and remodeling the Outpost House with his wife, Monica, and their two kids, Jonah and Cruz. He had started a suc-cessful home improvement business but decided that this was where his heart was. We are honored and very excited for this new era of our site and we hope you get a chance to talk shop with him sometime.

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What’s Up With the Water?As many of you are aware, this past summer presented some challenging water issues for CSC. We are happy to tell you that improvements are in the process of being installed in the main camp system and will be fully operational by next summer.

The details are much more complex than one would think but the short ver-sion goes like this: If you combine our 40 year old water system with a recent rewrite of state drink-ing water treatment requirements you end up with a situation where we have to turn off the old spring in the middle of first term and truck in water until we make the necessary treatment and dis-tribution upgrades. With the scale of the project and our focus on the experience of the campers at hand, we postponed the design and implementation of those upgrades until the end of the summer. This required a temporary restructure of the distribution system, a lot of purchased water, a crash course in water conservation, and a very flexible, understanding, and committed community.

With a source limited by truck delivery we had to time and measure our use accurately to keep costs down and minimize the possibility of running out of water. We were so impressed by how well we all worked together to brainstorm and implement conservations ideas to make this work. Everyone really took advantage of the opportunity to learn how to use water wisely. We turned the water off when we brushed our teeth and scrubbed our hands. We took ‘Navy’ or ‘Military’ showers. We were conservative about how often we flushed toilets and washed dishes. We used the water left in our cups to pour in our water bottles or the planters. Overall, we gained a much greater appreciation of the value of our water resources as well as an increased understanding of how we can use them responsibly. We estimate that we used at least 30% less water this summer!

This started us thinking about other interesting water numbers so we did some research and came up with the following fun water facts:

-98% of all the water on planet earth is salt water. This leaves 2% of water that is fresh water. Only about 1% of that water, or 0.007% of all the water on earth is available for human consumption. (www.water.org)-The average person uses about 70 gallons of water per day. Based on statistics pre-sented by www.drinktap.org and the American Water Works Association-Average Daily Water Use Statistics: Showers: 11.6 Gallons, Leaks: 9.5 Gallons, Toi-lets: 18.5 Gallons, Faucets: 10.9 Gallons, Drinking: .5 – 1 Gallon. Based on statistics presented by www.drinktap.org and the American Water Works Association-With access to just 5 liters of water each day, more than a billion people in water poor regions around the globe survive on the same amount used to flush a toilet or take a 5-minute shower. From www.ecosalon.com/water-Set in the desert of Dubai, the Tiger Woods Golf Course uses 4 million gallons of water every day to maintain its lush appearance. From www.ecosalon.com/water-Of all the water that enters each household, about 95% of it ends up down the drain. From www.ecosalon.com/water

Do a little research on your own and see what you can find. You could even challenge yourself to minimize your water footprint. Try turning off the water when you brush your teeth or shorten your shower by 1 minute. Those of you in urban areas with water bills will see a measurable difference. Here at camp we’ll have plenty of fresh, filtered spring water next year. We’ll also have a summer’s worth of experience to help us conserve our most precious resource.

Colvig Silver CampsIan Zigel (cmpr 10, 11) Guest contributor

Up high in the state of Colorado, at an altitude much higher than Florida’s, lies Colvig Silver Camps, which provides a summer program filled with adventure. Colvig Silver Camps, or just CSC, is a camp similar to the “Outward Bound” program. It is a place where you can enjoy the exhilaration of rock climbing, participate in adventurous hikes or engage in a lively game of capture the flag on an enormous field which is around 2/3 of a mile long. At CSC you will be thrilled by the natural world around you; it is a precious experience, which you value whether you attend once or multiple times. I started going to CSC in the summer of 2010. At the beginning of the session, I was extremely homesick. I wanted to go home because I missed my family so much. But my counselor, Richard, guaranteed I would have an incredible time. Dur-ing camp, it turns out, I made a lot of friends and by the end I did not want to leave. As a matter of fact, I was constantly doing something at camp. I was so used to being constantly busy that, when I returned home, I kept saying to my mother for those last two or three weeks of summer, “When am I going to do something, I’m bored.” As impos-sible as I thought it would be to survive a month without my family, camp turned out to be one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Like I said before, you are constantly doing some-thing at camp. Activities include cooking, creek sloshing (hiking through mountain streams), and delightful swims on hot days in an icy lake. We also got to go on expeditions. My favorite one was a four-day trip to Arch Canyon, Utah. We hiked in the desert and saw lots of amazing scenery in-cluding the incredible ancient ruins and pottery of the Navajo Indians. These expeditions take place all over the “Four Corners” area of Utah and Colo-rado. Camp is divided into 5 groups; Homestead for campers from age 8 to 10, Silver Spruce for boys ages 11 to 13, Silver Saddle for girls ages 11-13, Out-post for campers ages 14 and 15, and Pathfinding a group of 16 and 17 year-olds who go on a big expe-dition. The year I was there they hiked 140 miles in 26 days. I highly recommend Colvig Silver Camps as a summer camp. It was an incredible experience for me, and I hope you get to enjoy it too.

Ian Zigel (cmpr 10, 11) wrote this article for his school newspaper

in Miami Beach, FL.

Thanks for sharing it with us Ian and we look forward to spend-

ing next summer exploring these Colorado mountains with you

again.

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News, Notes, and Reminders Contact Us!Ready to ENROLL for Summer 2012?

Enrollment is now open online. From our web-site www.colvigsilvercamps.com click on the

CampInTouch link on the top left hand corner. Use your email address and password to log

in, then fill out your enrollment application for 2012! Feel free to contact us with any questions and we hope to see your enrollment soon so we

can save you a bunk for another summer of signifigance.

* * *Do you believe the “early bird gets the worm”?

Well, it does! This year you are the bird! If you enroll online and send in a check for full tuition

by January 1, 2012, you will receive a worm in the amount of a

5% tuition discount!! Yippee!!

* * *Were you a part of Summer 2011? A proud parent? A smiling staffer? A courageous

camper? Here at CSC, we continuously try to improve every aspect of our program. If you

have any ideas for things we should change (or things we should never change!), please let us know! Evaluation forms are available on our

website.

* * *Colvig Silver Camps has created an official

CSC fan page on Facebook!! We would love for you to join us for updates on off-season

and summer happenings. It is also a place to connect with old and new camp friends. Search Facebook for the Colvig Silver Camps Fan Page

and become a CSC fan!

* * *Winter Slideshow Tour headed your way! We can’t wait to see all of you soon. If we’re in your area, please join us for a gathering of camp people, old and new, at a CSC family’s home. We’ll take a visual journey through

last year and talk about the memories for past campers and possibilities for new campers. If

you were at camp in 2011, you’ll even be on the big screen a time or two! Invitations will go out

soon and the schedule will be posted online.

STAY IN TOUCH W/CSC!Please remember to keep us updated

by phone or email regarding any changes in contact information for you or your camper so we can keep

you informed about

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